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Hey guys, had another question from someone that wanted to know what is the ammonia smell

coming from my body?

Doing Keto Interminute Fasting and I have this interesting odor coming out.

So let's first talk about what ammonia is.

Ammonia is the byproduct of protein breakdown.

It's called protein catabolism, which is the breakdown of protein.

And in a normal person with normal healthy kidneys, this ammonia should break down into

something called urea and be excreted.

Urea is a less toxic material.

Ammonia is more toxic, especially to the brain and the nervous system.

So if your kidneys are normal, you can make this conversion very easily and there's no

problem.

However, if the ammonia builds up in the body, you can create not just an odor coming out

of your skin, but problems with your cognitive function, lethargy, being irritable, seizures,

breathing problems, and even brain swelling, it could be quite dangerous.

Okay, so that's very interesting, but now what do we do about it?

Well, to figure that out, we have to know what causes this buildup of ammonia.

There's several things.

Number one, either a fatty liver or a liver that has cirrhosis, that's scar tissue.

Because the capacity of liver to function and detoxify this is not there, thereby backing

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